He would have been great in anything, though, for he has such a square jaw, and he looks so fierce when anything needs to be overcome.

Our forefathers must have looked like that, with their broad eagle noses and iron mouths.

They began at the beginning, too, and they went to the very end.

I wish Nino had been a general, or a statesman, or a cardinal, or all three like Richelieu.
But you want to hear of Nino, and you can pass on your ways, all of you, without hearing my reflections and small-talk about goodness, and success, and the like.

Moreover, since I respect myself now, I must not find so much fault with my own doings, or you will say that I am in my dotage.